From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] configfile
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:20:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87is4vaqz1.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502132136.21750.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:36:21 +0100")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:41, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> It just seems it a bit awkward to me. I have no idea how big the
>> stack is on the PC and if it will cause problems.
>
> I don't know, either, but I guess it would consume less than 1KB per
> configfile, because large data is allocated on the heap but not on the
> stack. If you don't like it, it is feasible to push the context of
> current configuration and call longjmp to start a new configuration. I
> think this is tricky.
What I had in mind was to change the menu in memory. But I don't have
any problems with a few lost bytes either. So we just do it like in
Hollis' patch? In that case I'll review so it can be applied.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-14 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-13 15:18 [patch] configfile Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-13 16:03 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-13 17:53 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-13 18:49 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-13 19:41 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-13 20:36 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-14 19:20 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-02-14 20:54 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-14 21:03 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-02-13 18:52 ` Hollis Blanchard
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